Best 7 Minutes and Longer Songs

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The Top Ten

1Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

2Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

3Master of Puppets - Metallica

Easily together with Battery, Disposable Heroes and Damage Inc. their four best songs ever! (For fifth I have a problem, since in RtL I like Bells the most, but still riffs to me sound too sabbatish (very simple, almost amateurish). MoP wins on all courts in their entire catalogue - it stands head and shoulders above anything recorded in all metal genres with best Death albums, Time Does Not Heal, first two Testament classic albums with the others who have at least three instant classic studio releases that already stood or will stand the test of time for sure : Iron Maiden (Powerslave, BNW, AMOLAD), Fates Warning (A Pleasant Shade of Gray, Disconnected, Darkness In A Different Light), Dream Theater (SFAM, Train of Thought, because&SL), Judas Priest (Sad Wings of Destiny, Screaming for Vengeance, Painkiller). Will see how Rust-Countdown-Endgame; Still Life-Blackwater Park-Ghost Reveries will survive an uncompromising test of time. I wish that they would age with grace as phenomenal ...more

4Stargazer - Rainbow

For a long time this was my favourite song of all time. It's still up there. - IronSabbathPriest

This is an epic masterpiece. - Metal_Treasure

5November Rain - Guns N' Roses

6Child in Time - Deep Purple

Beautiful song that slowly increases in intensity as it reaches a guitar solo climax then falls again and increases in intensity a second time to finish with an epic outro. One of the most beautiful songs ever written. - fidelcanojr

Child In Time is amazing. A true masterpiece! Way better than Stairway To Heaven which is one of the most overrated songs on list, except for maybe November Rain

7Alive - X Japan

8Hallowed Be Thy Name - Iron Maiden

9Layla - Derek and the Dominos

"perfection" by michael fassbender

10Jesus of Suburbia - Green Day

Best song ever. Meaningful lyrics, great band. This is probably Green Day's best song they ever wrote.

Definitely up there with stairway to heaven and free bird - MojoSpaederman

The Contenders

11One - Metallica

Ridiculously awsome in every way pausible. I love the lyrics too.

12The Glass Prison - Dream Theater

13Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden

14Shine on You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

15Wheel of Time - Blind Guardian

16Blackwater Park - Opeth

17Runaway - Kanye West

18Dry County - Bon Jovi

19Schism - Tool

20Dante's Inferno - Iced Earth

21Mirrors - Justin Timberlake

22Estranged - Guns N' Roses

23Hearts Alive - Mastodon

24The Poet and the Pendulum - Nightwish

25War Pigs - Black Sabbath

26Purify - Neurosis

27Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin

The greatest Zeppelin tune. - BrianScott01

28Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

You bet that scream ROCKS! No denying it, The Who happen to Rock as well!

If rock and roll had a theme song, then this would be it.

Greatest scream in rock and roll ever. period.

29Dancing With the Moonlit Knight - Genesis

30Echoes - Pink Floyd

BEATIFUL song! A true masterpiece of Pink Floyd

31Cabo Wabo - Van Halen

32Octavarium - Dream Theater

33Victim of Changes - Judas Priest

34A Little Piece of Heaven - Avenged Sevenfold

35And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian

36Dogs - Pink Floyd

Greatest Solos ever. 17 minutes of amazingness.

37Pull Me Under - Dream Theater

38Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

39Citizen Erased - Muse

40Burnt Offerings - Iced Earth

41Sacred Worlds - Blind Guardian

42Flesh and the Power It Holds - Death

43Fear of the Dark - Iron Maiden

Where's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Art of Life, Dance with the Devil, Master of Puppets, and War pigs? They should all be in the top ten.

442112 - Rush

45American Pie - Don McLean

70? It's easily Top 10. This song touches on one of the most tragic moments in music history, and how it impacted everyone. No song here could ever touch on tragic subject like this. - naFrovivuS